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To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) he
or (b) officials from his Department have (i) met or (ii) been in correspondence with
representatives from GoldenTree Asset Management since his appointment.

<p>I updated the House on Monday 19th November regarding Johnston Press. Johnston
Press had a number of creditors including Golden Tree Asset Management, Fidelity,
Caravel Asset Management, and Benefits Street Partners. As I set out on 19 November,
a consortium of creditors formed JPI Media to take over the assets of Johnston Press.
DCMS has been in contact with a number of stakeholders in relation to the takeover<del
class="ministerial">.</del><ins class="ministerial">:I spoke with David King (Chief
Executive of JPI Media) and John Ensall (Director at JPI Media). Officials at DCMS
have also spoken to representatives of Johnston Press and JPI Media. </ins></p>

<p>The following ministers have resigned from office since the formation of the Government
on 11 June 2017:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Lord Price CVO, former Minister of State for Trade
Policy</li><li>Lord Nash, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School
System</li><li>The Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St. Johns DBE, former Minister of State
for Exiting the European Union</li><li>The Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, former Secretary
of State for Defence</li><li>The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP, former Secretary of State
for International Development</li><li>The Rt Hon Damian Green MP, former First Secretary
of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><ul><li>The Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, former Secretary of State for Education
and Minister for Women and Equalities</li><li>Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen, former
Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip)</li><li>The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, former Secretary
of State for the Home Department and Minister for Women and Equalities</li><li>Dr
Philip Lee MP, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Youth Justice, Victims,
Female Offenders and Offender Health</li><li>The Rt Hon Greg Hands MP, former Minister
for Trade Policy</li><li>The Rt Hon David Davis MP, former Secretary of State for
Exiting the European Union</li><li>The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, former Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs</li><li>Steve Baker MP, former Parliamentary Under Secretary
of State for Exiting the European Union</li><li>Andrew Griffiths MP, former Parliamentary
Under Secretary of State, Minister for Small Business Consumers and Corporate Responsibility</li><li>Guto
Bebb MP, former Minister for Defence Procurement</li><li>Tracey Crouch MP, former
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport and Civil Society</li><li>Jo Johnson
MP, former Minister of State for Transport and Minister for London</li><li>The Rt
Hon Dominic Raab MP, former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union</li><li>The
Rt Hon Esther McVey MP, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions</li><li>Suella
Braverman MP, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Exiting the European
Union</li><li>Shailesh Vara MP, former Minister of State for Northern Ireland</li><li><ins
class="ministerial">Sam Gyimah MP, former Minister of State for Universities, Science,
Research and Innovation</ins></li></ul>

<p><del class="ministerial">NHS England has recently announced plans to enable consistent
national availability of the Freestyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring device according
to published guidance.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Clinical commissioning
groups (CCGs) can purchase any available blood glucose monitoring which has been approved
for sale on the open market. The availability of AccuChek Expert, Dexcom G6 and Eversense
XL products is a matter for CCGs who are primarily responsible for commissioning diabetes
services, to meet the requirements of their population. In doing so, they need to
ensure that the services they provide are fit for purpose, reflect the needs of the
local population, are based on the available evidence and consider national guidelines.
NHS England engages with technology companies developing products that may be of significant
benefit to those with diabetes to seek to increase their availability to patients
where appropriate.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Department does not collate
data on the number of patients using these devices nationally or by clinical commissioning
group.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">NHS Digital
publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England.
These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs),
but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local
authorities or other providers.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The attached
table shows the number of paediatric mental health nurses who work in National Health
Service trusts and CCGs in England as at the last day of each specified month from
May 2010 to July 2018 (latest available), full time equivalent.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Paediatric
mental health nurses include qualified nurses &amp; health visitors within the care
settings 'Community Mental Health' and 'Other Mental Health', with Tertiary Areas
of Work 'Child and Adolescent Psychiatry' and 'Child Psychotherapy'.</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">The Area of Work reproduced here is that submitted by individual
NHS organisations and has not been subject to the types of validation procedures undertaken
by NHS Digital in relation to many other data items used in official publications.
As such, these figures should be treated with a degree of caution.</ins></p></ins></p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many children
had their private school fees paid by his Department at (a) schools in the UK and
(b) schools overseas in the most recent year for which figures are available.

<p>In Financial Year 2016/2017, the FCO funded the private school fees for the following
number of children:</p><p>(a) At schools in the UK: <ins class="ministerial">541</ins>
<del class="ministerial">393 </del></p><p>(b) At schools overseas: 1074</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans
to tackle the criminalisation of humanitarian assistance to migrants as evidenced
by the recent seizure of the migrant rescue vessel Aquarius; and if he will make a
statement.

<p>The UK Government is aware<ins class="ministerial"> that, on 20 November 2018,
Italian authorities issued a warrant for </ins> <del class="ministerial">of</del>
the seizure of the Marine Vessel Aquarius <del class="ministerial">by the Italian
authorities</del> on grounds of waste pollution.<ins class="ministerial"> According
to the ship's operators, the vessel has been at the French port of Marseille since
4 October 2018 and, in the absence of a Flag State, is unable to leave port. Consequently
the warrant has not yet been executed. It</ins> <del class="ministerial">The vessel
operated as a Search and Rescue vessel in the central Mediterranean by Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs) 'SOS Méditerranée' and 'Médicins Sans Frontières' until September
2018. This matter is now subject to Italian legal processes and it</del> is not appropriate
for the UK Government to comment<ins class="ministerial"> on the legal process initiated
by the Italian authorities</ins>. <del class="ministerial">We recognise the importance
of Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean and value the contribution of NGOs in saving
lives at sea. We are concerned about the increasing fatality rate that has coincided
with the effective cessation of the Search and Rescue operations in the central Mediterranean
due to the lack of assurances over safe disembarkation arrangements. We will continue
to be involved with efforts to find a solution.</del></p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant
to the Answer of 22 November 2018 to Question 194759 on Department for Business, Energy
and Industrial Strategy: Brexit and the Answer of 19 November 2018 to Question 190945
on Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Brexit, for what reason
his Department is unable to provide that information.

<p><del class="ministerial">The Department does not hold this information centrally,
and providing this information would incur disproportionate cost. This represents
the estimated cost of one person spending 3.5 working days in determining whether
the Department holds the information, including locating, retrieving and extracting
this. The Act provides that we are not obliged to comply with requests where the estimated
cost of complying would exceed this limit.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Due
to the breadth and nature of your request, we estimate that meeting the request could
not be done within the appropriate time limit set out by the Act.</del></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">This information is not held centrally and can only be obtained
at disproportionate cost.</ins></p>

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the number
of people in each parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester that are paid the
(a) national minimum wage and (b) national living wage.

<p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics
Authority.<del class="ministerial"> I have asked the Authority to reply.</del><ins
class="ministerial"> Once I receive their response, I will place a copy in the Library.</ins></p>

<p>HM Prison and Probation workforce statistics (which contains staffing figures in
public sector prisons but not in privately managed prisons) are published quarterly.
The figures are broken down by establishment and by prison category including male
Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) for those aged 15-17. All staff working with children
have to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of the vetting process before taking
up such roles. The latest publication can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-september-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-september-2018</a></p><p>
</p><p>Attached are tables showing the staff numbers at YOIs and details on the numbers
of those dismissed or disciplined. Values of 2 or fewer have not been included to
avoid the possibility of identification of individuals and to prevent disclosure in
accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to conduct
and discipline cases this meant a breakdown of the reasons behind the actions could
not be provided due to the very low numbers involved. Please also note that since
June 2016 HMPPS has taken over the running of Medway Secure Training Centre and 151
FTE staff transferred in. In September 2017, 59 FTE staff transferred in to the newly
created Youth Custody Service.</p><p> </p><p>All prison officers working in under
18 YOIs currently undergo a young person specific and child-centred Prison Officer
Entry Level Training (POELT) course. This course incorporates both the Working with
Young People in Custody (WYPC) course and Minimising and Managing Physical Restraint
(MMPR) training elements. The structure of the 10 week course allows learners to understand
the ethos, values, morals and ethics that are integral to working with young people.</p><p>
</p><p>We are introducing a new Youth Justice Specialist role and are providing funding
for every Prison Officer in the Youth Custody Service to undertake a distance-learning
university-accredited qualification in youth justice so that they can transition them
to this role. Supervising Officers will also be funded to undertake this training
and transition to the new role on level transfer. All staff undertaking the qualification
will be offered the opportunity to continue their study for another year to achieve
a full foundation degree, fully-funded by the Youth Custody Service (YCS). There are
over 300 frontline staff currently enrolled on this qualification and we will fund
250 places on this qualification per year for staff in the youth secure estate over
the next four years. We intend for this to be the new standard training for frontline
officers in the YCS by 2023</p><p> </p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what mandatory training is provided to
prison officers working in under-18 young offender institutions; and what is distinctive
about this training in comparison to that provided to officers working with adult
prisoners.

<p>HM Prison and Probation workforce statistics (which contains staffing figures in
public sector prisons but not in privately managed prisons) are published quarterly.
The figures are broken down by establishment and by prison category including male
Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) for those aged 15-17. All staff working with children
have to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of the vetting process before taking
up such roles. The latest publication can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-september-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-september-2018</a></p><p>
</p><p>Attached are tables showing the staff numbers at YOIs and details on the numbers
of those dismissed or disciplined. Values of 2 or fewer have not been included to
avoid the possibility of identification of individuals and to prevent disclosure in
accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to conduct
and discipline cases this meant a breakdown of the reasons behind the actions could
not be provided due to the very low numbers involved. Please also note that since
June 2016 HMPPS has taken over the running of Medway Secure Training Centre and 151
FTE staff transferred in. In September 2017, 59 FTE staff transferred in to the newly
created Youth Custody Service.</p><p> </p><p>All prison officers working in under
18 YOIs currently undergo a young person specific and child-centred Prison Officer
Entry Level Training (POELT) course. This course incorporates both the Working with
Young People in Custody (WYPC) course and Minimising and Managing Physical Restraint
(MMPR) training elements. The structure of the 10 week course allows learners to understand
the ethos, values, morals and ethics that are integral to working with young people.</p><p>
</p><p>We are introducing a new Youth Justice Specialist role and are providing funding
for every Prison Officer in the Youth Custody Service to undertake a distance-learning
university-accredited qualification in youth justice so that they can transition them
to this role. Supervising Officers will also be funded to undertake this training
and transition to the new role on level transfer. All staff undertaking the qualification
will be offered the opportunity to continue their study for another year to achieve
a full foundation degree, fully-funded by the Youth Custody Service (YCS). There are
over 300 frontline staff currently enrolled on this qualification and we will fund
250 places on this qualification per year for staff in the youth secure estate over
the next four years. We intend for this to be the new standard training for frontline
officers in the YCS by 2023</p><p> </p>